The return of being a Libertine.....Or is it?

Ahhh the sweet return of The Libertines, a fame found on guerilla gigs and the undenying spirit of if you set your mind to achievement it can literally be done, when The Strokes were swooning around with their VU tones, these guys were in London waiting for a manager to say "Hey, look these guys fit the British bill", 6 years on from the split (the central theme being drugs), Pete, Carl, John and Gary (yes there are 2 other members) have joined forces once again to to bring back the raw style that gripped the indie nation from 2001-2004, but is this a good idea?

When they first broke onto the scene, the implosion was small, back in the days where Conor McNicholas and his team needed to champion a new era these guys were it, no air polishing, no bullshit, this is what they were, 4 guys from London who turned up in pubs, kebab shops, anywhere that would take them, that rawness and openess with die hard fans to stage 'The rooms of Albion' meant so much, and their eponymous debut 'Up The Bracket', with the dancing Mick Jones again just cemented their legacy in the noughties.

Now i'm not going into the ins and out of the split, its been well documented and in the meantime we've seen Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, various solo outings and even Mr.Barat don a fake American accent in his debut in theatre surroundings, but when Zane Lowe and his incredibly annoying voice announced what many had anticipated at around 7:20pm I couldnt help thinking that with all what The Libertines stood for had been diminished, the likely lads who made the relationship between fans and artist possible had agreed to play Reading/Leeds, and i'm pretty sure alot of £££ had something to do with it.

With Mr.Barat explaining earlier in the year that he was 'too busy to reform The Libertines' it makes me even more certain that money was the ultimate heroin (sorry) to play not the hardcore fan base who admired their uniqueness, now don't get me wrong, I think its great that they managed to get together and will undoubtedly played a raucous show far from clean cut, but when I look at the media it gets me wondering, has my love for them subsided a notch.

BBC, ITN showbiz (jeeeeeez), Channel 5, MTV, all these media super powers who wouldnt give a long log about them before the drugs, Kate Moss, Imprisonment now make it a media circus that surely I believe waves away the freedom that they cherished with fans, earlier tonight a press conference at a North London pub, where the questions were not, new material? Up The Bracket in full? Anymore gigs? Future of Carl's solo career? Babyshambles on hiatus? But, 'Pete you still on drugs? Is this helping? Have you talked about the reasons you split? What is it about the £1.5 Million thats so appealing? To which a stout Mr Doherty did intelligently reply "£1.2 Million actually, whats interesting about it is how much will be left after tax". The mainstream media circus has made this less about an influential indie revival band but more about what sells papers, the underlying issues that a genuine music fan doesn't give a solitary shit about, hence why my initial excitement is slowly deteriorating.

I hope they can take back to the good old days, lads if your going to do it, DO IT PROPERLY, don't just announce, few guinesses infront of the mainstream circus and wait till August, lets have the guerilla gigs, the anarchy, albion rooms, pub acoustic sessions, lead us up into a 2001 lave of fun filled debauchery that made us love you in the first place, please whatever you do, take the £££ and ditch the fundamentals that made you so so great, make us believe again in that bands dont have to take a corporate cock shafting to make it, make us believe lads, make us believe.